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Ease your stress with Private GP appointments
19th November 2024

How Same-Day Private GP Appointments Can Ease the Burden of Busy Schedules

In today’s fast-paced world, balancing work, family, and personal life can often feel like an overwhelming juggling act. From handling demanding careers to managing family responsibilities, there’s little room left for anything else—including long waits for medical appointments. For busy individuals and families, a traditional GP appointment, with its weeks-long wait times and uncertain schedules, can feel like an insurmountable barrier to maintaining good health. That’s where same-day private GP appointments can make all the difference, offering a fast, reliable, and stress-free solution to the growing challenges of accessing healthcare.

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Private GP appointments
12th November 2024

Same-Day Private GP Appointments: Quick, Easy, and Convenient Healthcare When You Need It Most

At SameDayDoctor, we make it easy for you to get the healthcare you need, when you need it. Whether you're dealing with a health concern, need a check-up, or seeking specialist referrals, we offer same-day GP appointments that are quick, efficient, and stress-free. Our professional healthcare team is dedicated to providing fast, reliable medical services tailored to your needs, with no long wait times

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The NHS and the Private Medical sector
4th November 2024

Recent increased spending announced for the NHS is to be welcomed by patients and medical teams working in healthcare in the UK. This should help to reduce waiting lists and improve access to NHS services. We are awaing announcements on whether reforms to the NHS will also be initiated to make the most of this extra funding.

At samedaydoctor we believe that the NHS should be accessible to all without significant financial barriers to patients. However it remains to be seen that providing NHS servies free at the point of use is sustainable in the long term. In our private GP service we offer same day and walk in appointments and we like to work hand in hand with the NHS to try to provide seamless access to excellent medical care for as many people as possible.

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Prostate Cancer
22nd October 2024

Testing for prostate cancer-Recent high profile publicity of men with prostate cancer has reminded us to advise our patients to be tested regularly with a PSA blood test. There are some high risk groups who need to be monitored closely and we recommend added surveillance for them. Samedaydoctor private doctor walk in clinics can do this blood tess 7 days a week in our central London clinic and 6 days a week in all of our other clincis with the reassurance of fast same-day results interpreted by a private GP with experience of dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.

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Better survival for breast cancer patients
7th November 2023

Most women with early breast cancer now beat the disease thanks to huge improvements in treatments in recent years, a BMJ analysis has found. Their risk of dying within five years of diagnosis is estimated to be around 5% - down from 14% in the 1990s

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New Covid variant spread-long covid resulting
17th October 2023

The manager of the care home at the centre of England's biggest outbreak of a new Covid variant has spoken of her shock at how fast it spread. Last month the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said an outbreak at a then-unknown care home in Norfolk was behind a new variant spreading across the country. It has since been revealed that the home was Shipdham Manor at Shipdham, near Dereham

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Managing Fever In Children
21st September 2023

Published article about fever in children

One of the scarier things about being a parent is that when your child’s temperature spikes dramatically, there’s not really a set rulebook you can follow.

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Live worm found in woman's brain
29th August 2023

In a world first, scientists say that an 8cm (3in) worm has been found alive in the brain of an Australian woman

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Why choose a private GP clinic in the United Kingdom?
14th August 2023

A private GP offers the same services as your NHS GP. The difference is that, because you’re paying privately, you will be able to access all the clinic’s services more quickly and at your convenience. Our private clinics are also open on weekends